What Will Your Child Learn When?

Biblical, Parent-Led Philosophy

Abeka’s curriculum is parent led and focuses on building character. Why?

Because it’s biblical. It follows Proverbs 22:6a, which says, “Train up a child in the way he should go.”

Because it’s practical. With a parent-led philosophy, you can make sure your children are well prepared for life—without gaps in their learning.

Because oral teaching and review is so important. Children learn by hearing, seeing, and doing. If education is entirely reading based or entirely project based, they miss out on that vitally important piece of the puzzle.

Methods that Make Your Job Easier

Do you recognize the terms spiral approach, learning preferences, and cross-subject integration?

Read on for some quick explanations and—more importantly—to find out why those methods make your job easier.

Abeka’s spiral approach

Building from the simple to the complex, with frequent review and application within each grade and from grade to grade.

This means you prevent learning gaps from the first day you teach with Abeka until the last.

The work you put in now pays off later (like when thoroughly teaching and reviewing multiplication tables saves your child from dreading math).

Since repetition is the key to learning, concepts are truly learned–and remembered.

Because concepts aren’t presented just one time, or in one way, it means you’re giving your child multiple opportunities to be successful.

Rough days are less stressful when you realize you don’t have just ONE CHANCE to make sure your child understands a concept.

Learning preferences

When faced with the 3 major learning styles (auditory, visual, and kinesthetic, or hearing, seeing, and doing), learning preferences are how you prefer, if given a choice, to learn something. Instead of favoring 1 and neglecting the others, we incorporate all 3.

By using all 3, you’re teaching your children to be adaptable, resilient learners.

You don’t have to feel guilty because you don’t use a different curriculum for each child.

You’re doing what the best teachers do to help their students learn.

Cross-subject integration

Pulling in concepts from 1 subject into several others to reinforce concepts and tie learning together

Learning comes to life more with cross-subject integration (like when students learn about Abraham Lincoln in history, read about him in language arts, do a project with pennies and top hats in art, and write a story using what they know).

Children feel a sense of familiarity and accomplishment when they see something they already learned (like spelling words) “pop up” in another subject (like science or literature).